It’s about freaking time SOMEBODY forced other Republicans, you know, to have to rely on Principles! Once again, the political symptom is gun control and the filibuster but the Republican disease is Heh!:
Texas senator Ted Cruz on Friday indicated that the battle among GOP Senators over gun control was so fierce that, at several points throughout the debate, some of his Republican colleagues yelled at him “at the top of their lungs.”
“I don’t know that there is an issue that has generated more heat internally in the Republican conference,” Cruz said at a Texas tea party rally. “We’ve had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican senators standing up and looking at Rand [Paul] and Mike [Lee] and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs, I mean, really upset. And they said ‘Look, why did you do this? As a result of what you did, when I go home, my constituents are yelling at me that I have to stand on principle.’ I’m really not making that up.
(H/T: The Corner) Take away from that snippet – I betcha more of these Republican morons are more concerned with keeping their R-butts seats rather than defending the R-values they campaigned on. Got that? It comes down to saying one thing but doing another – and a lot of Rs don’t like hearing that and they don’t like the bony finger pointed at them or their friends. Too bad – and with the rest New Media, we get the word out.
Oh you bet that I’ll hear about posting this – “there he goes again, bashing other Republicans” (just like when I “visited” the Merrimack County Republicans a coupla weeks ago and Mark Sanborn (according to someone sitting across from him who came up to me afterwards) yelled out “HE HELPS TO ELECT DEMOCRATS!”). In response to that assflappery, I say this:
“if Republicans actually acted as they talked, or voted like they campaign-promised, I’d only have Democrats and Progressives to go after. I and the other Groksters would rather have that situation, but all too often, elected Republicans go “whew, I’m elected – now let me do what I want” instead of living up to explicit and implied promises and philosophy. We merely point that out, add a dash of snark, and blog away.
Tell you what, Mark Sanborn, you get Republicans to be Consistent, get the Trust of the electorate back, and maintain that for a few cycles? We’ll go away. But given your outburst, it seem rather clear that you’d rather be an enabler rather than a solution-engineer. Just remember one thing – I buy my electrons at a VERY cheap rate and I share them with my friends. But I digress – back to Senators Lee, Paul, and Cruz!
Grokster Steve! Quick, send Lee, Paul, and Cruz a whole bunch of these to pass out – The Republican Repair Kit:
Hey Mark, don’t worry! We got one for you, too!
